stifiling, as you mentioned somewhere pacman still works in alphaOS and reason for that is I kept part of spkg that makes entries in /var/lib/pacman/local, so pacman still recognizes packages from there as installed... spkg even handle things like "provides, conflict, replaces"

Still, I would rather to just compile programs in alphaOS to get the best compatibility.

Compiling full xfce from source for example is not that hard (require about 10-15 packages)

Some more things about spkg:
1. if you type spkg -gi evince it will get and install evince plus dependency poppler
2. with spkg -g evince it will just get evince to cache directory and Not poppler. Is this enough or I should modify script to get dependencies even if you don't want to install package?
3. spkg -i is command for installing local packages and supports infinite number of arguments. Example: you have folder with 100 spkg packages and you type spkg -i * they are all installed
4. If you go to /initrd/pup_rw/var/lib/spkg/installed you will see packages installed by you (not part of the main iso)
5. automatically upgrading packages does not work and I have no idea how to implement that
6. spkg repack PKGNAME, will remake package from installed files

2. How to backup my def file created under /mnt/home/data/spkg/def-scripts/*/?

thanks.

Hi ojowinter, thanks for using alphaOS!

1.Check under System- make personal save file, select desired size and partition .
That created file will be loaded on every start up with all your settings, You can also copy that file somewhere as alphasave.2fs.bak
in case of some problems appear, I do that all the time.

2. In next version pciutils will be in main iso, I forgot about that package before.
From that screenshot I'd you are quite advanced user so maybe you could help maintaining alpha os repository http://code.google.com/p/alphaos/downloads/list

In case of smaller disk capacity you might be interested in function spkg makesfs that converts all packages in a folder to single sfs module. 20 sfs modules can be loaded I think that's more than enough for everyone.

umm...Honestly, I didn't know well gcc option and how way to confirm it.
I study your advising to me

Btw, Now remind me gtk-doc build trouble.

Dependencies
gtk-doc - docbook-xsl - docbook-xml

Some gtk application need gtk-doc, and so need to package docbook-xml, docbook-xlt,
but two is required by manually handling setup...
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/DocBook.html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/docbook-xsl.html

Some gtk application need gtk-doc, and so need to package docbook-xml, docbook-xlt,
but two is required by manually handling setup...
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/DocBook.html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/docbook-xsl.html

I think that it's good to have two in default alpha iso.

I try to avoid documentation files where ever possible to save some space, and /usr/share/doc for every package is removed before compressing.

Where did you have problems with missing gtk-doc? For me that problem appeared only with dconf, so I made patch to just in Makefile.in and Makefile.am remove doc from subdirs. If gtk-doc is hard dependency I guess we can add it, but not in main iso.

Sorry to go a bit offtopic but, do you know what happened to ArchPup's forum? Freeforum.com says they closed it and since ArchPup's topic here at murga is locked up...

I was wondering the same, maybe ArchPup by simargl is no longer going forward? Perhaps influenced by Woof's ability to make an 'Apup' being fixed after been broken for a while. http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00179

It may also be felt that it is inappropriate to discuss in this sub-forum.

Good luck to simargl though. His distro has it's own site and is really a fork, that is based on some of the Puppy initrd and skeleton infrastructure. So, it stands alone as it's own distro.

I felt it not fair from me continue with using Pup name in distro that is really very different, and because of problems with
udev, iconv and because I like to experiment here is alphaOS where everything is compiled from scratch. Things that
defined Archpup like openbox, dynamic menu update, conky, tint2, spaceFM are still here, and off course option for easy
switching deskops with sfs modules.

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